Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight. Skydio leverages breakthrough AI to create the world’s most intelligent flying machines for use by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
A semi-conductor facility's water crystallizer cooling tower. This 3D model was captured by Dean Miller, Virtual Design in Construction Engineer at Sundt Construction. Dean used a Skydio 2 with Skydio 3D Scan.
MD Bell Tower, a 3D capture with Skydio 2, was performed in less than one hour. Digital twins created by drones can simplify, speed and reduce the cost of documentation of historical buildings.
Skydio drones can help rapidly inspect and document the status of large vehicles like locomotives, but manual drones struggle to capture imagery up close or in overhung environments. With Aberdeen, Carolina, and Western Railway's support we were able to generate and share this dataset in 38min, using 511 photos.
This model is of an electrical switch at a transmission infrastructure test site, for testing operated by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The model was generated without the use of a bucket truck, any pre-planning, or nerve-wracking pilot flight - just one Skydio X2E Color, 3D Scan, and 21 minutes of autonomous flight.
The future of aircraft and incident inspection is here - Skydio’s 3D Scan can generate incredibly detailed 3D models of structures with greater reliability, precision, and safety than manual methods.
This scan is a glimpse into the future of asset inspections. With its automated workflows and obstacle avoidance, 3D scan will revolutionize the way infrastructure assets like this dam are inspected. With sub-millimeter precision, inspectors are able to detect even the smallest cracks in concrete (embedded model is down-sampled for useability).
Crane masts must be regularly inspected and maintained for worker safety, but manual drones cannot get close enough to capture the level of detail shown here without an expensive zoom lens. 3D Scan works without GPS and near metallic structures where manual drone magnetometers would fail.
The metallic structure of a jet fuselage is difficult for a manual drone to navigate near, requiring long standoff distances and expensive hardware to compensate for conservative flight patterns. 3D Scan can capture incredible up-close detail with fully automated workflows.
The Lunar Module, sometimes known as the Lunar Lander, was designed to transport astronauts between a spacecraft in lunar orbit and the surface of the moon. Between 1969 and 1972, six of these lunar modules landed humans on the Moon, and they remain the only crewed aircraft to ever land on the Moon’s surface.
